Fay Clark is a comparative psychologist and animal welfare scientist at the University of Bristol, UK. She studies the link between animal cognition and welfare by designing cognitive challenges (tasks and games) for captive animals. She has spent over 20 years working with captive wildlife in zoos and research centres across the UK and USA, including eight years at the Bristol Zoological Society. The Comparative Challenge Lab was established at the University of Bristol to develop technology for testing cognitive skills and providing mental stimulation to captive animals, particularly primates and marine mammals. Fay works collaboratively with product engineers and machine learning experts to bring her challenge designs to life, and has a particular interest in using 'hidden' technology to study animals without disturbing them.

Fiona French is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University. She's course leader for BSc Games Programming and her field of research is Animal-Computer Interaction. She investigates how playful technology can be used to support the welfare and enrichment of all animals, including humans, and has published widely in this field. She’s a member of the Animal Welfare Research Group (AWRG), the Association for Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), the recently formed Acoustic Enrichment Interest Group (AEIG) and a founder of the Multispecies Interaction Design research group at Londonmet.

Christopher Flynn Martin is the Director of Research at The Indianapolis Zoo and an affiliate professor at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics. He holds a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in Primatology from Kyoto University and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Martin founded Zenrichment, a company that develops custom touchscreen systems and software for primate cognitive research and enrichment at zoos worldwide. His research examines great ape social cognition, communication, imitation, and strategic reasoning. At The Indianapolis Zoo, he leads a cognitive research program with 12 orangutans and 21 chimpanzees, using voluntary touchscreen tasks that provide enrichment, reveal cognitive insights, and educate visitors on species intelligence and conservation.

Simon Kenworthy uses a mix of approaches to understand how animals learn to adapt to rapid change. He performed the first multi-touchscreen experiment with wild primates, afflicted with the Tsaobis Baboon Project, to understand the spread of culture in baboons. He has also set up the Comparative Social Learning Project at ZSL, where by using both targeted and standardised cognitive enrichment across ZSL (from primates to birds and reptiles), Simon informs conservation policy, particularly within the conservation of animal cultures.

Yumi Yamanashi is an assistant professor at Kyoto University, and conducts research with the Center for Research and Education of Wildlife at Kyoto City Zoo.